A former Georgia Republican official who had to defend his state’s election administration after Donald Trump tried to overturn the results in 2020 has endorsed President Joe Biden and urged other Republicans to join him in an op-ed published Monday.
Unfortunately, Duncan has not quite reached the inevitable conclusion that the current MAGA ized Republican Party need to be defeated up and down the ballot this election before a renewed Conservative Party could be rebuilt. If it is just Donald Trump that loses in November this current anti democratic bullshit will be bolstered by conspiracy theories of stolen elections. The GOP needs to be burned down to the ground.
Is this a big fucking deal?
Well, it’s certainly better than the R’s who have become/remain spineless sycophants.
The Republicans crawling back to Trump are afraid of their base, and afraid of losing power if they cross that base (and a word from Trump makes that a reality). They are a bunch of cowards, who are putting their party in front of their duty to the Constitution and the people…all of us, not just some tiny rabid slice.
Yes, Duncan is a Republican, and he holds political positions that the vast majority of readers here don’t agree with. He’s also obviously a real patriot who believes in the principles of the nation, not one of the fake ones that want power so they can toss those principles aside to force their will onto the nation. Like Liz Cheney and Adam Kitzinger, he’s basically throwing his career away in an attempt to get the conservatives in the US to step away from the edge…we need all of the Republicans who haven’t drunk the Trump Kool Aid to step up in the same way and take out the MAGA movement. Without this, we’ll remain on the edge of falling into fascism, each election a battle between a relatively normal centrist course and the fall of the US as we know it. Republicans stepping up to do their duty to the nation can’t happen soon enough…sadly, I’m not sure it will ever happen, they seem not to care about anything but winning at this point.
I think that behind the sycophancy we keep seeing is often physical fear of being persecuted if Trump is re-elected. The GOP knows him better and knows that their party would bend over backwards to enable Trump no matter what he does. Which is why I take my hat off tho Duncan.
In the above comments you all make good points, but what I think is missing is that if Republicans that aren’t Trumpublicans don’t vote for Biden and a few more Dems then nothing will get done. The Boeberts, Greenes, and the like also need to go. If there are some Republicans that have bowed down to Trump still in office they need to be countermanded by Republicans who didn’t. If one political party can absolutely lose their f*cking mind then we need to be ever vigilant about our own party too.
Yes, yes it is.
If Our Dear Orange Diaper Stain can’t win Georgia, it isn’t clear that he can win the Presidency. Four more years of normal effective leadership from Biden.
HELLSCAPE
I don’t think getting stuff done is a republican goal at all any longer unless it’s their stuff. This quote of Duncan’s in the article tells me that few gop have the desire for gov’t to function; they just don’t support the lunacy of magatsand tfg: “…But the GOP will never rebuild until we move on from the Trump era, leaving conservative (but not angry) Republicans like me no choice but to pull the lever for Biden. At the same time, we should work to elect GOP congressional majorities to block his second-term legislative agenda and provide a check and balance.”. Silly me, I thought the check and balance feature was for use between the branches; not intramurals. I thought the idea was that there must be enough cooperation to get stuff done with priorities set by the majority party; whichever is the majority. Unless the priorities are harmful or unconstitutional, playing the blocking game purely for political purposes was dereliction of duty, but it seems to be what Duncan expects.
Someone on MSNBC last night said this Congress is the least productive Congress since the Civil War. I can believe it. I’m just so sick of Donnie sucking all the oxygen out of every room.
Yes. And Yes.
I wonder how many who swear they are voting for Trump, really will in the voting booth? After all who would know? Votes are secret aren’t they?
Respect to Mr. Duncan.
As a dog returneth to his vomit, So a fool returneth to his folly.
Yes. I have to believe there are those who say they love him and secretly hope he loses, but I think this is a small number.
There are too many Republicans who say they’ll do “everything they can” to ensure TFG doesn’t win again and then decline to endorse Biden for me to be comfortable.
Why in hell are the GQP morons trying to come after Garland? If anyone should be coming after Garland, it would be the Dems.
Like with the united front during World War II we need the Duncans as well other Republicans as part of the coalition (from Chomsky to Duncan) to defeat Trump in November. It’s up to Republicans to purge or as least mitigate the Trumpism out of their party however unlikely that might be.
The Republican Party is in it’s death throes. We have to be watchful though they are dying they can still hurt us. Take every election serious. Own the ballot box. Good luck to us all.
Yes, it could be a BFD!
What Duncan has said - is what millions of Republicans need to open their mouths and say out loud …
Mitt Romney - who has virtually nothing to lose - who has articulated his revulsion at Trump’s immoral , unethical, hateful behavior - Mitt Romney who says that Trump is epically unfit for office - somehow finds himself unable to verbalize the obvious answer - Vote for Biden - so Romney fails to take the ultimate step to courage … he meekly fails to speak the obvious critical action that reasonable people who want to preserve democracy must take !
And sadly - there are multitudes of muddling others - bastards who will excoriate Trump - see him as clearly bent upon tearing down democracy & ruling as a despot … and yet dogmatically - like mindless robots - cannot vote for the only alternative to repulsive Trump …
Many private individuals - individuals who lead generally non-political lives - individuals who seek to make serious moral choices in the voting booth… yes, many many may decide that their conscience calls them to vote for Biden.
A Republican capable of independent thought? What a concept!